Improvement in grasshopper-destroyers



JNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICEo JAMES V. BARGER, OF ROOKPORT, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRASSHOPPER-DESTROVERS.

Speelication forming part of Letters Patent No. 191,097, dated May 22, 1877; application tiled March 26, 1877.

To all ywhom at may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES V. BARGER, of Rockport, in the county of Atchison, and in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grasshopper- Destroyer; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specilication.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a machine for catching and destroying grasshoppers, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled-in the art -to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, refer` ring' to the annexed drawing, in Which- Figure l is a side elevation ot' my machine. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same. i Y

'A represents the framework placed on an axle, B, to which the drivingwheels U U are secured. rlhese wheels are formed with spurs a to enter the ground so that they will rotate when the machine is drawn over the ground.

This axle, with its wheels, is near the fron end of the frame, and the rear end of said frame is supported on a caster-wheel, l), the frame E of which is slotted vertically, and fastened by a bolt, a', to the main frame, thus making the rear end of the main frame adjust-- able up and down on the caster-wheel.

rEhe main frame A stands always in a more or less inclined position, and the bottom of the frame is formed of an endless apron, G, passing around two rollers, b b.

The rear roller b has its bearings in slides d, which can be adjusted at Will, so as to stretch the apron asV required. 0n one of the journals of the roller b, outside of the frame, is a pul ley, d', connected by a crossed belt or rope e, with a pulley, H, attached to the wheel C, on that side ot' the machine, whereby the endless apron Gr obtains a rearward mot-ion as the machine moves forward.

Above the rear roller b is another roller, IL,

hoppers are guided or, so to say, scooped in by the wings R., hood L, and hinged apron S, onto the endless rotating apron G, and theyr are carried backward by said apron until they are crushed by the roller h, when they fall into the box l. This box, when full of dead grasshoppers, is emptied by simply drawing out the sliding bottom J.

Having thus fully described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The hood L, hinged apron S, and wings lt, in combination with the carrying-apron G, crushing-roller h,'and receiving-box I, all su bstantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

ln testimony that I claim the foregoing l have hereunto set my hand this 1st day` of' February, 1877.

t J. V. BARGER. Witnesses:

T. G. GIFFORD,

F. M. CALDWELL. 

